that does it for the beat tonight. thank you for watching. we'll be back at 6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow: don't go anywhere. "hardball with chris matthews" is up next. trash talk. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington with just three weeks to go until the midterm elections, president trump is once again making himself the focus of our national conversation. with a schoolyard personal attack against a woman who said he had an extramarital affair with her. denied having relations with stormy daniels, saying federal judge throws out stormy daniels lawsuit versus trump. trump is entitled to full legal fees. now i can go after horse face and her 3rd rate lawyer in the great state of texas.

she will confirm the letter she signed. she knows nothing about me, a total con! horse face. trump was spiking the football after a federal judge dismissed daniels' defamation suit against him. daniels fired back in a tweet of her own writing, in part, ladies and gentlemen, may i present your president. he has demonstrated his incompetent, hater -- hatred of women. in 2016 trump retweeted an account that wrote, a picture is worth a thousand words and included a photo comparing trump rival ted cruz's wife heidi to melania trump. in august trump attacked his former staffer omarosa and praising john kelly for firing that dog. it's the language that has defined trump's language on women including hillary clinton,

rosie o'donnell. >> when you looked at that horrible woman last night, you said, i don't think so. >> he called this woman miss piggy. >> she was the winner and she gained a massive amount of weight. it was a real problem. >> rosy is an unattractive person. rosy is a slob. >> they said he invaded her space. i invaded her space. believe me, the last space that i want to invade is her space, believe me. >> donald trump said the following about you, quote, look at that face, would anyone vote for that? can you imagine that the face of our next president? >> i think women all over this country heard clearly what mr. trump said. [ applause ] >> in an interview with the associated press late today, president trump defended his comments about stormy daniels. asked if it was appropriate to comment on a woman's looks, trump says you can take it any

way you want. white house reporter for the associated press conducted that interview a few moments ago with the president. don edwards, congresswoman from maryland former and contributor of "time" magazine. i want to start with jonathan. you just interviewed the president with some of your colleagues at . ap how would you describe his reaction physically when you questioned him about whether you should call anybody horse dlafa? >> this is not the first time he's made a derisive comment about a woman. he spent most of the interview with his arms folded across his chest. and he gave no grounds whatsoever. as you just read, he said you can make of it whatever you want. there was no attempt at an

apology. there was no idea that this could hurt him among women voters in the midterms now just three weeks away. he was defiant in many ways throughout this interview when we asked him about michael cohen, his former attorney who pleaded guilty in august and suggested that he was acting under the direction of the president to violate campaign finance law. trump tonight told us at the amount ofap that cohen was lying and he made up stories to get a lighter sentence. he was very much on the defensive with these comments, but at the same time suggesting he's very optimistic about republicans' chances going into the midterms, so much so that unlike president obama when the democrats lost, he acknowledged he owned responsibility calling it a shellacking. he says he's out there helping

republican candidates and if they were to lose control of the body, it wouldn't be his fault. >> here's what i don't understand about trump. i guess it takes some interpretation. when he makes this smart alec remark about someone having a face he doesn't like, an eight-year-old makes a comment about someone they're mad at, does he cover for it saying that's part of his strategy, or is it ridiculously a strategy because most voters are women. and why does he keep doing this on the edge of an election. >> the thing is i don't think it's a strategy. i don't know how many more examples we need. the president is a misogynist. >> why is he mad at everyone. >> i don't want to psychoanalyze the president. >> why does he keep making snarky comments. >> maybe he was mad at his mother, i don't know. but women across the united states in these swing congressional districts,

college-educated women are not voting for donald trump, and the more he's out on the campaign trail like that, frankly, for democrats the better for democrats because people will show up to vote and they're going to send their message by making sure that democrats win and take over the house and maybe even the senate. whether the president wants to take responsibility for it or not, he's going to be responsible. >> elise, maybe i live in a dream world, but i speak with a lot of guys and they are always nice about their wives, especially their daughters. the people they've been with, they don't knock women. this guy seems to have a predilection for the cheap shot and it goes on and no whether it's carli wherever he thinks there might be a vulnerability in whatever way, your thoughts? >> i agree that he is a misogynist, he exhibits this

behavior so constantly that of course there's no strategy. it's just his fundamental character: this is who donald trump is. and women across america see it. now while i don't think necessarily that a republican woman who ended up voting for him knowing all of this because it's been obvious to see since every day on the campaign trail, while i don't know that they're going to change their vote and vote for a democrat, they might stay at home and that's good for democrats and it reminds democratic women why they are investing so much of their time and energy in this election. >> the latest numbers are 59-37. trump's latest comments about a woman comes exactly two weeks after he mocked the testimony of dr. christine blasey ford who publicly accused justice kavanaugh of sexual assault. he tried to explain why in his "60 minutes" interview on sunday. >> you mimicked professor blasey

ford. >> had i not made that speech, we wouldn't have won. you're trying to destroy a life of a man who has been extraordinary. >> why did you have to make fun of her? >> i didn't really make fun. >> well, they were laughing. >> the person we're talking about didn't know the year, the time, the place. i think she was treated with great respect. i'll be honest. there are those who think she shouldn't have been. >> did you treat her with respect? you seem to be saying that she lied. >> i'm not going to get into it because we won. it doesn't matter. >> jonathan, you were just with him. this macho thing, i'm on the roll, i'm going to say what i feel like staying, i'm going to trash anybody i don't like. i'm going to do a little jig in the end zone, i'm going to enjoy this thing. what do you make of it? what was he like when you were

just with him? >> he is absolutely right. he's brimming with confidence right now. donald trump and his aides here in the white house feel like this is one of the best days of the presidency in the last few weeks, capped off by the kavanaugh victory, the fact that he's been seated on the court. and they feel like the fight surrounding the nomination is really fueling republican voters who were at a disadvantage. democrats are more excited to go out there to vote and they believe that's not the case anymore. republicans are excited they have kavanaugh on the bench, but more so angry at how he was treated. he drew a link to how kavanaugh was treated, the idea that he was guilty then proven innocent to what happened with the journalist who disappeared in the saudi arabian consulate believing that he, that saudi arabia was also being dealt the same way, presumed guilty and having to prove innocent. this president is doubling down

on this idea and he feels that he has hit upon a winning message going into the midterms. >> do you realize the absurdity of that? whatever you say about kavanaugh, it wasn't kavanaugh's house. this is in the saudi arabia consulate, his fiancée stood at the door while her fiancé went in there and didn't come out. it isn't a ago that christie story. what are we talking about? and the building was saudi. this isn't a mystery. >> in some places there's audio and video. and the president is doubling down. >> why is he turning himself into a pretzel? >> because he's getting ready to lose and he's going to lose big. >> explain trump right now. he's hot dogging in the end zone. he must have said i have enough male votes and very conservative

women who are more accepting of this awful talk by men. and i'll live with that, i'll take my share of the pie. >> chris, i think you're being overa overly generous. it's his lack of self-control. he says what he wants to say. >> go ahead. >> i think that he just wanted to hit back. he's so angry over stormy daniels, in the book describing his manhood that he feels aren't sufficiently flattering and he actually had a victory. he had won the defamation case and so instead of just resting on his laurels, he has to bring the controversy back into everyone's view and he looks disgusting and small-minded as is par for the course behavior. >> both if you look at the way

puts away marco rubio, there's also fun with it. there's vengeance, though, when it comes to women. there's a hatred. there's something i want to get to the bottom of. what is it about this that makes him so angry like stormy daniels. if he had the affair with her, why is so mad at her? if he didn't, why did he dismiss this whole thing. he's still angry at hillary. he's not still angry at jeb or marco. why does he have a problem with women? >> stormy said that she physically spanked donald trump and you look at the media campaign she's waged against him over the past year, and she has just stood up against him every day in a way that he is vulnerable and he can't stand.

and he does not like strong women who aren't going to take any of his bs. >> that's it right there. >> i didn't know you would get into the spanking. i'm overwhelmed. go ahead, donna. >> it's it. any woman that can best him donald trump doesn't like. he can't even take it with women, but he can laugh them away. but with women he has to double down and then he goes deep and then he goes personal and nasty. and women across america are looking at this and they are not seeing a guy they want emlated in their homes, in their worsens, aworsen workplaces. >> thank you all for that great reporting. coming up, as i mentioned, president trump said criticism of the saudi royal family including many of his own party is another case of guilty until proven innocent. really? ohio governor kasijohn kasich i

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welcome back to "hardball." tonight amid-global outcry over the horrific murder of jamal khashoggi, president trump made clear just where he stands and it's not with the journalist and legal u.s. resident. in that interview with the associated press he just held late today, trump called the allegations that the saudi royal family was behind the murder of khashoggi just another case of guilty until proven innocent. this morning he tweeted, just spoke with the crown prince of saudi arabia who totally denied any knowledge of what took place. secretary of state mike pompeo sat down with for a jovial meeting with king and his son the crown prince.

>> well, yesterday trump floated the idea that the real culprits were rogue killers. according to the associated press, all major decisions in the ultra conservative kingdom are made by the royal family. i'm joined by shaken harris, correspondent for "the washington post." shaken, seems to me that -- are we slabting with the royal family of saudi arabia to cover this up? >> it sure sounds like the president has made up his mind and believed the saudi line on this. to be clear, there is video of jamal khashoggi going into that consulate october 2nd. there is no record of him walking out on his own. so i understand why the president maybe doesn't want to rush to judgment here, but the idea that the saudis must be completely innocent in this and have no explanation for what

happened to him, it defies belief. >> they dismembered the guy, it's horrible. wasn't his fiancée waiting outside for him to return? >> that's right. he had gone in to retrieve a document they needed to marry his fiancée who was waiting outside. there was no indication he was going to be in there for very long. she was just waiting outside expecting him to come back and he never showed. the saudis have never produced any kind of video showing him leaving. they professed they have no idea what happened to him, that makes it strange that the president started saying after talking to the king of saudi arabia, well, i think it might be rogue killers. did the saudi king suggest that to him because so far the line has been they don't know what happened to jamal khashoggi. so you can already see thousand statements are tilting in the direction of the saudis. but don't look to us for the answers here. we don't know what happened any more than and you do we want to

find out. >> shaken, you know what rush limbaugh calls people that do this kind of thing? ditto heads. they go along with what they're told. governor john kasich joins us right now. governor kasich, what do you make of the leadership coming from the white house on this issue of a lost u.s. resident? >> chris, i think it's just terrible. look, let's just say that the president's right, we don't know, because nobody really knows yet for sure, even though the germans, the french, and british have called for an investigation. the evidence has mounted in terms of u.s. intelligence picking things up. i read a lot, i studied likelihood, thought a lot about this. but let's give him the benefit of the doubt, then you don't go to a conference over there so they can extend their economic power. you don't talk about having arms sales. you say we're going to freeze the arms sales. we're not going to the that until we get to the bottom of

this. i've heard the president say this is about money, the arms trade. you know, i had somebody say to me the other day america is an idea. it is an idea. the things we believe in, the things we stand for that we believe in human rights, so money should never trump our foreign policy actions, skplgwe to see a lot of these ceos who thought they needed to be in saudi arabia for many big companies in the united states, stood up and said we're not going. and they deserve credit for that. they need to be held up and we need to be able to say to them that they've put some principle ahead of profit, which is what is critical for the economic system of our country. >> the president saying he's out there for raytheon and for boeing.

like he's their commercial trade representative. >> chris, that's not how you do foreign policy. foreign policy is not just about -- of course we would like to have jobs and economic contacts. it's why we shouldn't be in all these trade wars. we should try to get our travz down for free trade. we believe in free enterprise and profit, but we also believe that there are principles that underlie profit. look, you're a guy that studies a lot of these philosophers. a free enterprise side that is not underlaid with values is bankrupt. listen, chris, this is unanimous. this is a bipartisan outrage about this. in the meantime, you don't go to the conference, mnuchin shouldn't go to the conference. praise the ceos not going to the conference, and don't sell them

anymore weapons. don't do that until we get to the bottom of it. and we will get to the bottom of it. >> governor, this isn't the first time that trump has elevated the assurances of despotic leaders over his intelligence community. perhaps more than any president in modern history, donald trump is willing and sometimes even eager to uncritically repeat the assertions of authoritarian leaders, breaking with his own government experts. let's take a look at some of those examples. >> he's a funny guy. he's a very smart guy. he's a great negotiator. he loves his people, not that i'm surprised by that. >> i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> it's a great honor and privilege because he's become a friend of mine to introduce president erdogan of turkey.

he's running a very difficult part of the world. he's involved very, very strongly and, frankly, he's getting very high marks. >> what do you make of that, governor? >> come on, chris. >> why does he do this? go ahead. >> you remember that moment when reagan in the beginning said to dick allen, former national security adviser, we win and they lose. he was standing up against repression. now we look just not in the video and audio that you have just played, but you think about the developments in poland, the developments that are happening in hungary right now, a loss of the process, a shutdown of the courts. here's the thing, chris. you can't look the other way when it comes to autocrats. they're emboldened to do things that take away people's rights. i was just with a european

ambassador the other day that said when you start playing with fire with the extreme right, any of these people who border on demagogues, you play with fire and you embolden people. so this notion that somehow they're okay, no, they're terrible and we ought to point it out. it doesn't mean we have to go to war with them, but we should be clear about freedom of speech. these are essential elements for freedom in the western world. it's what our people fought for when they landed on the beaches in world war ii. this is what we're about. >> i'm with you, governor. >> i'm trying not to get to emotional but we've made huge sacrifices for these things and we need to honor them. >> you know what jack kennedy said? he said those who ride the tiger end up in its mouth.

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last night's arizona senate debate, republican martha mcsally accused democrat kristin sen asinema of advocating treason. >> while she was on the radio you said it was okay for americans to join the taliban to fight against us. you said you had no problem. >> we are running out of time. >> i want to ask whether you're going to apologize for the veterans and me for saying it's okay to commit zbleechb martha has dhoenz run a campaign like you're seeing right now. these ridiculous attacks and smearing my campaign and she's just trying to cut, cut, cut, and not share the full picture. but the truth is that i've always fought for arizona and i have been proud to serve our state in elected office for over 13 years. >> this came from an interview

she gave in 2003 before the invasion of iraq, which she also opposed. however, the radio host went further in a series of hypothetical arguments. he made the case that the government sbhont able to force americans to support armed struggling overseas, saying that individuals should be free to do what they want in matters of war. let's listen to that context. >> i do think that those of us who have privileged to have more do owe something to others. i don't think -- >> by force? as an individual, if i want to go fight in the taliban army, i go over there and i'm fighting for the taliban. that's a personal decision. >> i don't care if you want to do that. >> i want to go in world war ii and i want to join the raf and fight the germans bombing london, i'm all over it. as an individual, you can do whatever you want with your money, not mine. >> right but when you say we owe something to the world, my definition of owing something to

the world doesn't involve war and destruction. >> the poll shows sen a&m leading mcsally by three points. joining me is dan no wiki. dan, it looks to me you can tell who's ahead because somebody threw the bomb and that was mcsally. she threw the bomb. she had it ready in her pocket, a grenade, pulled the pin and pulled out something in the context of a wild interview with a super libertarian radio host. your thoughts? >> right. from mcsally's perspective, though, the debate was a success because of that moment. she had been trying to draw attention to sinema's distant past as an anti-war protester and she was able to do it and able to set the conversation today about what sinema did or

didn't do in 2003. that's kind of the big takeaway out of the debate. in that respect, it was probably a successful tactic by mcsally. >> it ought to be somewhat relevant that most think the war in iraq was a mistake that cost 4,000 lives and killed 100,000 people. to what purpose? >> in that sense the attack seems like weak tea. it was something 15 years ago, it was kind of a bleak reference she turns around but i'm not talking about war and destruction, that sort of thing. however, dan's out there in arizona, and mcsally looked like -- she certainly in danger of losing what ought to be a republican seat, let's face it. and so to the extent that she's gotten people to talk about

something negative or perceived as in the beginning of about sinema, that is a win for her. >> here she is embracing the president here on multiple occasions throughout the debate. last night mcsally embraced president trump and everything on his agenda. let's watch that. >> because of the republican-led senate in the house, working with this president, we really see more opportunity for people in arizona. arizonans want to be with the agenda that we are working on with president trump. and i built a good relationship with the president. he is leading our country in the right direction. america is back and arizona is back. thanks to president trump, governor deucesy and the republican house and senate. there's more opportunity for everyone. >> quickly, dan, is running as trump's surrogate the smart move for her? >> probably is this year because this is going to be a turned out election.

john mccain used to daw criticism for running to the right during the primary and then pivot to the center for the general election. she's not pivoting back. it's all about getting out the base. that's why you're hearing her embracing trump. trump is coming out on friday to rally the troops for her and she's using this kind of trump-style rhetoric. >> thanks so much. >> red state/blue state, and that's the question. is there enough of a trump base that will turn out to save mcsally or do democrats and independents who are repulsed by this sort of thing, do they come out and flip the seat? >> a phrase margin of error is going to mean a lot in this election three weeks from tonight because i think it's going to matter to a lot of these races. they are not decided yet. thank you. arizona republic, great paper.

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>> nancy pelosi. >> northeaancy pelosi. >> nancy pelosi. >> pelosi. >> nancy pelosi. >> nancy pelosi. >> nancy pelosi. >> nancy pelosi. >> nancy pelosi. >> nancy pelosi. >> nancy pelosi. >> nancy pelosi. >> pelosi. >> if you vote for abigail spanberger, the result will be nancy pelosi liberal policies across the board on every single issue. >> must be easier to pronounce. brat is not alone amongst republicans in using pelosi's name to rile up voters. according to politico, close to 100 republican-funded tv spots casting hillary clinton, house minority leader nancy pelosi as both villains have aired 34,000 times. ginger gibson, political correspondent for reuters. jamal simmons, host of hill tv democratic strategist.

this is an old thing. they did it in the '2040s. >> it's centered around hold up a woman, accuse her of having scary. they thought it's worked the last few times. they're not talking about chuck schumer or some other man. >> why a woman. >> because they think that playbook works. they think that worked for hillary clinton. the biggest criticism of nancy pelosi is she's better at her job than anyone has been for decades. the best whip of votes since lbj. >> you're right because i worked for tip o'neal and she was better. >> they are talking about chuck schumer, and the candidate in nashville, two-term governor but when he gets to washington he would be part of chuck schumer's foot soldiers. >> that's all true, actually.

>> of course. >> go ahead. >> what's happening here, it makes covering this campaign odd because it's like the democrats are talking to one america and the republicans are talking to another america. and the republican america, nancy pelosi is one of the biggest villains in the country because she's a democrat, a woman, a liberal. >> well off, a little swank. >> san francisco. >> and san francisco. i think we can put it all together. >> in san francisco i think she's a corporate democrat, but in the republican party they are animated about nancy pelosi. so i guess they're hoping brat is going to turn out new voters in this modern 2018 strategy, and it's all about base republicans. >> meanwhile president trump is continuing his attacks against democratic senator elizabeth warren. another woman. following the release of her dna test indicating she has some, a bit of native american ancestry.

in tweets today sent out this morning before most had their first cup of coffee, the president referring to her as pocahontas calling it a bogus dna test and she should apologize for this fraud against the american pick up. who is winning? has she won this bagttle or pronged it. >> you are getting a preview of what 2020 is going to look like. i don't know that anyone wins this. president trump -- >> is trump one to run against elizabeth warren. >> trump wants to fight anyone who will fight him. most presidents stay out of the process of their opponents being selected in a primary. he wants to be in the fight. he's picking fights ahead of the process. >> does he want her as his opponent. >> i'm not sure he thinks that far ahead. i mean that. she would be well advised not to

go into dna science. on the other hand, in 1966 when the republican elections, nixon campaigned all over the country and began rising as the favorite against romney and rockefeller and others for the 1968 nomination. at that point lyndhen johnson lost his temp and referred to nixon as a chronic campaigner. he immediately became the face of the opposition. and it could be donald trump is doing a similar favor inadvertently. >> he needs somebody on the left. i don't know if he's picking they may or not. >> i think he's afraid of warren. i think warren is someone who can animate the democratic base in a base versus base election. she's a woman, she doesn't have the same nefgts as hillary clinton and donald trump is trying to define her early in a way, and she felt -- i'm not at all. >> i think you're touting it. nothing wrong with that.

>> i like kamala harris. >> we can talk about that for an hour because i'm watching. finally president trump tonight is reiterating his plans to run into 2020 and is brushing off a potential challenge by former new york city mayor mike bloomberg. >> 2020. >> right. >> you're running? >> yes, 100%. >> michael bloomberg might be running. >> that's good. i think it would be easy. it would be so easy. i don't think through the democrats. >> otherwise you wouldn't be able to do anything in the primaries. >> the democrats will eat him up. >> he's scouting the field. >> he's looking for his best and worst opponent. when he's playing to his base, anytime he thinks he's fighting or being perceived as taking the fight to the other side, his

base gets happy. so he doesn't want someone that's going to sit there quietly and politely respond to him. he wants someone who's going to fight. >> i don't remember what california democrats saying if we can just get reagan nominated. >> don't give us george sr. >> i still think it is about getting democratic voters excited. if democrats pick somebody they can rally around, trump knows that's going to be very hard for him because he's going to have to try to find more voters in the middle. >> can cory beat him? >> sure. >> cory can beat trump? >> any democrat can beat him. >> you think so. >> i don't rule anybody out. >> how do you past the medial strip? >> kamala harris proved herself better than cory did in the hearing with kavanaugh.

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trump watch tuesday october 16th, 2018, donald trump understands resentment. he understands why people in places like pennsylvania and michigan and wisconsin would vote against the political establishment. he knows how those people would join others in the south and

west in voting for him, putting him in the house in order to get the establishment types out of the white house. well, he understands the resentment in feeling overlooked if not discarded by the establishment republicans and democrats alike. but what of his own resentments? he wasn't thrown out of work by bad trade deals or automation. he wasn't looked down upon by the old money republicans or the culturally superior democrats? what's donald trump's resentment all about? how do we explain this resentment against women, this sense of being overlooked or discarded by the female gender? how do we explain this sad bitterness that comes out in all these nasty shots, this sad little name calling and snide shots that looks. why is donald trump so hurt, so sadly beside himself about the other gender? was he rejected? does he feel so deeply inferior that he must cry out against rosie o'donnell or stormy

daniels? because how else, why else would he be so caught up in such a snit? why else would he come across as so spiteful as to make us wonder what was done to this man to make him talk like an 8-year-old crying through his peanut butter and jelly sandwich? that's hardball for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on "all in" -- >> i want you to vote. pretend i'm on the ballot. >> three weeks for the last chance to put a check on donald trump. tonight there is new data and a new national message derkts. >> medicare, social security and medicaid. >> then as the president attacks stormy daniels -- >> the president of the united states called a woman with whom he had an alleged sexual relationship horse face. >> what we know about michael cohen's conversations with robert mueller. plus, senator chris murphy on the trump p.r. offensive